Thanks swordfish, the howtoforge article got me up and running quickly on my test servers.

However I experienced errors immediately when I started the slave server. Some duplicate key exist error, I figure why would this occur. A quick search on google turned up that to get an accurate snapshot of the server I need to shutdown the master server to replicate with which I didn't do in the first place.

I hope this helps someone who is starting with MySQL replication as well.